Are the days of " plinking" over??

I'd kind of like to buy one of the AK slide fire stocks. SPG has them for $260.00. I could use a coupon plus get free shipping.
Problem is that I'm down to my last three cases of ammo. For these I paid $75.00 a piece and free shipping. That's the most I've ever paid for 7.62 x 39.
When ammo once again becomes available & it's $250.00 or so for a case. That's way too much for just blasting away for me.
I'm also about done with a 1919 build for which I have a Emory Crankfire unit. I'm afraid .308 will also be way too high for blasting fun. At least for a poor boy like myself.

Have the gun grabbers allready won, when it comes to plinking fun???

What will be the new " reasonable" prices on common ammo??

" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"

I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............

The problem is the panic'ers who are paying the high prices, as long as they keep buying at the high prices the market is going to stay there. With this peak though, I think it will be a little while before the prices come back down

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan

Friggin crazy people are paying .15 cents a round for 22LR. Still living off the 308 surplus bought around 2000 when decent surplus Austrian/Portuguese/German was .17 cents a round and in sometimes even cheaper like the Bulgarian or Chinese (spook ammo Brit headstamp) corrosive for less than .10 cents. The last cheap ammo purchased was the 7n6 @ less than .13 cents from SPG using the double discount membership and free shipping trick heard about on one of the forums ordered a week before Sandy Hook. Other than some reloading supplies haven't bought any loaded, ammo since the BUM took office in 2008. Had a lot of friends and coworkers call me crazy but a few that have helped me are worth a couple hundred rounds or primers for past favors.

Yeah unfortunately I'm being very cautious about how much training/testing ammo that I use. I don't want to be in a situation where the zombie hords and blue helmets are in the front yard, and I'm low on ammo.

Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!

"If they’re going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press ’1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller

Just like with gas prices. Starts at $3.00, goes up to $3.50, holy hell thats expensive! goes down to $3.25, ahh thats cheaper. Goes back up, this time to $3.75. When it comes down to $3.50, its cheaper than $3.75, but still more than it was.... Then they jack it up to $4.50 in a day or two, and we sigh with relief as we watch its slow decline, .01 or .02 cents at a time, to a nice cheap price of $4.10....ridiculous.

Im reading the "299 days" books right now. on Book #4, I think thats all there is right now?? But its pegging the current situation almost to a "T". Pretty scary.

"Slide fire plinking" is probably a thing of the past for most. I shoot as often as the urge strikes still,, but more in moderation now. My son hasn't mastered that moderation part yet,, he'd burn through every round I have,,,,if you gave him half a chance!!! Kids!! He loves to shoot too,, to bad he hasn't figured out the replacing what you shoot up part yet!!!! I bet he'd be way more thrifty about round count if he did !!

Every week used to be a 300-500 round week on a slow week,, but I have cut my shooting way down now, too,, at least somewhat. Some weeks I don't shoot at all others, only a couple hundred rounds or so now days.

I bought plenty before all the nonsense hit and have plenty of reloading supply's, so I'll be good for at least my life time. Damn good thing too,,, Good Lord your damn lucky to be able to find rifle ammo of any type for less than $1 a round now, it seems, if you can find it at all ! That's just CRAZY!!!!!

same here go to the range when i want, never much of a bang bang guy anyway, I have been doing a lot of test firing lately, but I have been stocking up long before the incident in December and when bargins do come up, i go for it cause it is only going to go higher don't really see it coming down. I saw some 22lr yesterday for 7cents round, I missed that deal by a few minutes and thats all it really takes. i did pay more than that for mini mags for the wife, that walther p-22 of hers, just doesn't like cheap 22lr, it was the first i saw it for sale in well over a month
5.45 was in yesterday, few distrubtors had it, it was gone in 4 hours all of it?? and it was not cheap like the SG special
wtf

I buy my ammo at the range now. I overpay for it but I keep the stockpile I have stagnant. I pretty much only shoot 9mm and .22 now. When reloading supplies are in stock, I reload. I think it'll come down eventually, but it'll be awhile before they catch up. I've had .223 on backorder with SG since November.